%config files and upgrade to F11 - consider noreplace

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr at volny.cz> wrote:
>> Please review use of %config without noreplace in your packages, and add
>> noreplace if appropriate.  The list of affected packages is below.
> <snip>
>> giallu  alleyoop
> 
> this is because of:
> %config %{_sysconfdir}/gconf/schemas/*.schemas
> 
> I checked other packages and it seems they are not marking with
> %config the files in /etc/gconf/schemas.
> 
> So, may I safely drop this?

Yes, gconf schemas are data, not %config.

> In that case, maybe rpmlint should grow a rule to not return:
> alleyoop.i386: W: non-conffile-in-etc /etc/gconf/schemas/alleyoop.schemas
> on the resulting rpm?

File a bug and let the rpmlint maintainers see what they think.

-Toshio

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